The Skillful Detective Two: Episodes Fifteen-Xvi (Final)
The truth is finally brought to lite, and our villain starts to notice that her really own methods are first to piece her downfall. Our team bands together amongst some unlikely allies inwards club to take the true culprit downward — will it go, or volition she skid through their grasp notwithstanding over again?
EPISODES fifteen-sixteen WEECAP
The detective squad surmises that Na-na likely faked her fainting episode to take the message that she’sec under threat. Since it’sec plausible that President Cheon would desire to target her in retaliation for the exposé interview she gave, she could be trying to frame him by making it await like somebody tampered with her insulin dose.
Ki-jin visits Yong-geun inwards prison, coming clean near the deoxyribonucleic acid analysis he ran on Hee-joo’second clothes. He wants to use that to go along blackmailing Na-na, just every bit Dong-jae did, inward club to secure himself a lifetime of money. Yong-geun advises him to go far count if he’s going all the way; he ought to pin everything on Sang-woo and tear him downwardly for expert.
Na-na voluntarily comes to the constabulary station to reach a testimony, though Ji-hyuk sees right through her — she’sec attacking start in social club to protect herself as well as turn the situation inward her favor. He’second right, because Na-na brings up the fourth dimension they colluded and she deliberately allow them bear a search too seizure on her house; she insinuates that she could give away their illegal method of obtaining show.
When Ji-hyuk brings upwards the possibility of her staging her insulin overdose, Na-na deliberately plays dumb. She suggests that it could’ve been an employee amongst access to her function, amongst instructions from President Cheon, though everyone knows that’sec manifestly non the example.
Ki-jin gives a press hearing, inward which he intentionally reveals Hee-joo’second clothes to the public. He crafts a story well-nigh how the Incheon team was concealing show, in social club to role it inwards a surprise move to try Sang-woo’second innocence inward the moment lawsuit. Not only has Ki-jin discredited the Incheon squad, simply he’sec besides manipulated the bear witness inwards his favor.
Taking it ane stride further, Ki-jin claims that the second person’sec bloodstains on the clothes could have been intentionally smeared on subsequently the offense, inward social club to frame individual. With that, even if the blood is revealed to be Na-na’s, she has a mode to explain herself out of suspicion.
President Cheon gets summoned to the station with a subpoena — Na-na has submitted her doctored sound recording equally show that President Cheon has it out for her. The question is actually just an excuse to speak to President Cheon, though; Ji-hyuk reveals that the police also think it’sec simply but a scheme Na-na cooked up.
Of course, Ji-hyuk knows but how to appeal to President Cheon. By pointing out that their investigation into Hee-joo’s murder could finish up exonerating Sang-woo, Ji-hyuk manages to secure President Cheon’s cooperation. The influential president pulls a few strings, too with that, our Incheon squad’second investigation is no longer hindered by outside forces.
Eun-hye reports Ki-jin to the prosecution for the incident at Grandpa’s shop, too the Seoul detective squad later on gets hit amongst a search in addition to seizure warrant. Desperate to salvage his ain cover, Ki-jin engineers a plot to sneak Boss Gu out of prison. Ki-jin baits Boss Gu alongside a duffel purse of coin, a false passport, too fifty-fifty a gun but inward instance, pretending to arrange for his prophylactic escape.
At the concluding instant, notwithstanding, Ki-jin pulls out his own gun and aims it at Boss Gu. If Boss Gu is dead, then he tin’t unwrap Ki-jin for ordering him to murder both Dong-jae and Grandpa. Ready to tie upwardly this final loose finish, Ki-jin prepares to force the trigger — solely to be met amongst a barrage of alarm gunshots.
Yay, our detectives tracked him down but in time! All cheers to Dong-wook, who stumbles out of Ki-jin’second auto trunk, LOL. In the interrogation room, Do-chang and Ji-hyuk become Boss Gu to fall the beans with a not bad scrap of opposite psychology, while Ki-jin stews inward his seat.
In a flashback, Dong-jae tells Tae-ho that he received Hee-joo’second corpse at a villa (a.1000.a. Na-na’s villa). Except when he called Sang-woo, he fibbed that Hee-joo wasn’t dead notwithstanding, too Sang-woo yelled at him to kill her — meaning Sang-woo wasn’t Hee-joo’second murderer.
We lastly run across the residuum of Tae-ho and Na-na’second conversation on the dark of the former’sec death. Tae-ho asks why Na-na was here at the villa when Hee-joo died, too in reply, she asks if they e'er really loved each other — was he inwards pain after learning of Hee-joo’second death?
Not knowing that Tae-ho already knows the truth, Na-na attempts to pivot the criminal offence on Sang-woo. Tae-ho doesn’t call her out on her prevarication, instead declaring that he killed Hee-joo, and so he’sec going to turn himself in.
He asks Na-na to forgive him one time he’second released from prison house in a decade, just nosotros all know how that panned out. Na-na engineers the motorcar accident, together with we lose ane of the well-nigh interesting characters of the season.
At Sang-woo’sec moment lawsuit, Ji-hyuk admits that the police force couldn’t notice conclusive show that Dong-jae killed Hee-joo, which agency there’sec reasonable dubiousness as to Sang-woo’second guilt. Ji-hyuk apologizes on behalf of the squad, owning upwardly to their mistake.
It’s a keen parallel to Do-chang from the previous season; this fourth dimension it’s Ji-hyuk in his place, repeating the exact same words he once said. It should live an emotionally weighted minute, except I don’t think I’1000 feeling it as much equally the demonstrate wants me to. I want we saw more than of Ji-hyuk’s motivations, because it feels similar he got hither without that much contend (owing to his righteous nature), inwards comparing to Do-chang.
Sang-woo meets with Do-chang and Ji-hyuk, where he accurately points out that they want him to help uncover the truth behind Hee-joo’s example. He already knows everything virtually the instance, including the prove and why none of it is conclusive, besides equally how Yong-geun is the fundamental to great Na-na’second perfect embrace storey. Stunned, they ask Sang-woo how he knows, together with he points out that he had all the time in the Earth to figure things out patch in prison house, LOL.
This scene displays some other interesting parallel; we’ve seen both siblings eating sweet treats (too alongside their bare hands at that), merely inwards rattling unlike circumstances. Na-na binged a tabular array of cakes inwards a minute of vulnerability, merely here, Sang-woo’s enjoying his desserts from a place of ability. It’s an interesting office reversal, too I wishing the exhibit expanded upon their sibling conflict more.
In the TJ carpark, Yong-geun nigh gets clobbered past a motorcyclist alongside a baseball game bat. It’second clearly a alert from Sang-woo, who points out that both sides have it out for him. Sang-woo gives Yong-geun a option between him or Na-na — who volition he support, too who volition he rather go killed by? (LOL, “me” in Korean is na, and then Sang-woo basically went “Na? Or Na-na?”)
Na-na promotes Yong-geun, in addition to she asks him to be her shadow. She claims that she’ll feel safety having him as her right-manus human, and then hints that he should go rid of Ji-hyuk.
Yong-geun makes his conclusion, as well as he calls Ji-hyuk to a junkyard, saying he has a vocalization recording of Na-na to paw over to him. Of form, it’sec a trap, in addition to Yong-geun ambushes Ji-hyuk earlier stabbing him alongside a knife. Except the knife doesn’t go through — phew, Ji-hyuk wore a bulletproof vest!
Ji-hyuk gains the upper manus in no fourth dimension, too Yong-geun ends upward handcuffed inward Ji-hyuk’s auto. Instead of taking him to the law station, however, Ji-hyuk gives Yong-geun i last hazard to obtain decisive bear witness from Na-na.
As such, Na-na returns to her office to notice a bloody as well as disheveled Yong-geun waiting for her. Since he’second the only i left who knows the truth of that dark, he starts a vocalisation recording on his telephone, and then asks Na-na to confess that she killed Hee-joo. Yong-geun wants to proceed the recording as insurance, then that Na-na tin’t kill him off too.
Losing her cool, Na-na throws the call up, but Yong-geun doesn’t let up. Relentlessly pushing her buttons until she’sec cornered, he eventually pressures her into admitting that she killed Hee-joo. With a dangerous glint in her eyes, she says that they accept to trust each other immediately. Yong-geun agrees, and leaves her role.
Once she’sec lonely, Na-na furiously stomps on the broken call, exclusively to be interrupted past the ringing of her function ring. She answers the phone call, in addition to it’second Sang-woo on the other finish of the business. Musing that Yong-geun volition involve a novel call, he patronizingly croons that she shouldn’t just destroy things just because she’s unhappy.
Oh, how the tables have turned. It’sec Sang-woo doing the surveilling like a shot, and Na-na paces about her part inwards a hysterical panic, realizing that she’second been caught on a hidden camera and that it’s all over for her. Na-na’second been done in by her very own methods.
The next forenoon, inward her female parent’sec villa, Na-na receives a text from Sang-woo. It’second a clip of her murder confession, along with a sticker of a laughing face wishing her practiced luck. HAHAHA, why is Sang-woo and then funny! He’s similar an overgrown manchild, as well as I wish we got to run across this side of him earlier.
Our detective team pulls up to the villa, in addition to Ji-hyuk calls Na-na to inform her that they have a warrant. He requests that she open the gates for them, only she screams that she didn’t murder Hee-joo — on the reverse, she tried to salvage her.
We come across what actually happened that nighttime. Na-na calls Hee-joo to the villa to demonstrate her the video of Sang-woo ordering her murder. Shocked, Hee-joo runs to the bathroom to throw up, where she accidentally comes across a positive pregnancy examination inwards the trash tin.
When Hee-joo returns to the living room, Na-na instructs her to mail the contents of Tae-ho’s laptop to the Blue House (thence making her the Blue House informant that landed President Cheon inwards jail), inwards exchange for the video clip of Sang-woo that she can use to protect herself. Hee-joo does as told, spell Na-na receives a provocative phone phone call from Sang-woo that sets her on border.
After Hee-joo’second done, she apologizes to Na-na. She says that Tae-ho sincerely loves Na-na, so humbly asks Na-na to delight forgive Tae-ho. Then she congratulates Na-na, and remarks that Tae-ho would make a expert male parent.
As Hee-joo leaves, she wishes for Na-na’sec happiness, in addition to it’second the terminal straw. In an impulsive correspond of rage, Na-na brings a vino bottle crashing downwards on Hee-joo’second head, and it ends upward killing her. Shocked by how things ended up, Na-na mutters over and over that she didn’t murder her. It was Sang-woo, non her.
Back inwards the introduce, Ji-hyuk handcuffs Na-na, though she’sec even so adamant that it wasn’t her who killed Hee-joo. She keeps a calm facade, simply her denials are starting to audio like empty reassurances that she’s desperately clinging to.
In the hospital, Do-chang as well as Eun-hye pay a see to Grandpa, who notwithstanding hasn’t regained consciousness still. Tearfully, Do-chang tells Grandpa that he’second lastly caught his granddaughter’sec murderer. It’second a bittersweet moment, equally Do-chang confides inward Eun-hye that the driving forcefulness behind his conclusion to take hold of the culprit was the pain he felt for both the victim too her bereaved family.
Some time afterwards, Do-chang drives his appointment dwelling. She likes him enough to schedule a minute engagement, merely Do-chang gets distracted past an altercation happening on the side of the route. His detective instincts boot in, too he pulls over to pause the fight upwardly. By the fourth dimension he returns to his automobile, yet, his appointment is long gone. Ha, around things never change.
We besides come across our team searching for a domestic dog on their master’second request, too in the distance, Man-gu comes running over. He’second flailing too screaming, together with the reason for his panic speedily becomes apparent — he’sec being chased past bees! HAHAHA, the team takes off running, and nosotros stop the flavour but similar how nosotros started it.
It’second a relief to lastly have Na-na exposed for her crimes, but it was a shame that nosotros didn’t get to run into the fallout. Since it was obvious from fairly early that she was the true culprit, the drama spent much also long going inwards circles together with having her constantly escape the law. If done correct, it could live suspenseful together with thrilling, but I personally felt that it cruel apartment in addition to even got ho-hum at times.
The ending felt rushed inward comparison to the sum of time nosotros took to go at that place, which shortchanged Na-na’s character a fair scrap. We saw her descend further as well as farther into an instability of her ain making, only we never actually got to explore her brain beyond a few flashback scenes.
Na-na’sec aversion to personal accountability for her own actions spurs her into a habit of lying that’second then compulsive she ends upwardly believing her own falsehoods, which is immediately repulsive and sympathetic. She grew upward under awful circumstances, which definitely warped her perspective, just her subsequent actions were still ultimately her ain.
Similar to Tae-ho, Sang-woo is some other interesting character that I felt was wasted overall. They enjoin prison changes a man, but I didn’t await it to live similar this — he’second and so amusing! I wish the script allowed him to present this side of his character more than, instead of just yelling at people every other judgement.
It feels similar the demonstrate pulled out all the stops in its last calendar week, but it was besides trivial, also belatedly. I liked the callbacks inwards these episodes too how we came total circle, just it did experience like the author had an idea of the first in addition to stop, and no idea how to connect the heart inward a concise and compelling style. It makes the payoff less satisfying than it ought to be, and I tin’t assistance but sigh at the present’sec wasted potential.
Still, I did train a soft topographic point for our bumbling Incheon squad, whose antics gave me a healthy dose of laughter each week. I sure have mixed feelings almost a potential third flavour — don’t go far unless y'all accept a firm script, please — simply I wouldn’t be entirely averse to seeing our team inward activeness over again.
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